HAVE YOU . . . been “cussed out” lately? Royally smoked! With “language”? Suffered the “road rage” of an out-of-control motorist … or maybe someone closer to home?

There is no doubt that when really cursed, those of us in Cor Unum would really step up and forgive. Many would call to mind the truth of Scripture that, the causeless curse does not alight. (Proverbs 26:2) We would pull ourselves up by our most holy bootstraps, remember whose kids we are, and we would walk on.

That, dear ones, is protective, but it is not a BLESSING substitution. We will look again tomorrow at what “cursing” we might be enduring, unaware.

2 comments:

I was sitting here thinking about who I was supposed to bless and I can't remember the last time I was in an arguement. No one has cursed me. And, I'm pretty happy with my peaceful life, so hopefully, no one will.

Thought-provoking comment . . . my desire is two-fold: that we would get into the "return a blessing" mode a little more than "smile and bear it," and . . . that we will come to recognize, as tomorrow's post points out, that there are those who really do curse the people of God continually.

Psalm 27:4

It has been my privilege to compile a "monastic" devotional for everyday life and for women in all walks of life. We take part in this "Cyber Monastery" for the purpose of growth in devotion and the "practice of the Presence of God."

Although we may never meet, we share this cloister and this life through our prayer and worship and small, determined steps in godliness.

Neither Catholicism nor holy orders are required here; this is the most ancient monasticism, the kind that took Anna into the temple in the second chapter of Luke, Moses into the Tent of Meeting, and Paul into seclusion in the early days of his conversion. Within our families and our churches, day and night, alone or in company, we are "marketplace monastics," living to bring pleasure to the heart of God.

Join us - your new "habit" awaits ... here in Cor Unum Abbey.

"One thing have I desired of the Lord; that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple."